The applicant is a Zimbabwean national who was previously resident in the neighboring country of Botswana having been so resident there for some fifteen years. He is aggrieved by the forfeiture and disposal by the 1st respondent of one of the two motor vehicles he was desirousof bringing into Zimbabwe upon his relocation from Botswana in October 2017. He claims that this motor vehicle (a Toyota Coaster Minibus with Registration No. B 571 BEB) (hereinafter referred to as the “motor vehicle”) was improperly, irregularly and corruptly disposed of by official of the 1st respondent stationed at Plumtree boarder post (the... More
This was an urgent chamber application for a stay of execution. I never got to determine it on the merits. That makes the facts of the dispute largely irrelevant. This judgment is primarily to explain the trajectory of the matter after it was filed. More
The applicant as farmer and the first respondent as miner lock horns over the exercise of their respective rights on the same piece of land. The applicant occupies a piece of land by virtue of land occupation permit issued to him in 2001 at the height of the land reform programme. The first respondent on the other hand is, on the face of it, the holder of certain mining rights over the same piece of land which it acquired by virtue of a contract to that effect with the fourth respondent. The mining claim was initially registered in the name... More
This is an appeal emanating from the Regional Magistrates Court sitting at Masvingo where appellant was convicted of the offence of having sexual intercourse with a young person below the age of sixteen years in contravention of section 70(1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Chapter 9:23] (“the criminal code”). More
